maxim

Her signature maxim — “It costs a lot of money to look this cheap” — drew laughs for decades even as it illuminated the unflinching honesty of her creative approach.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Following his father’s maxim that “if you ain’t first, you’re last,” Ricky Bobby can’t imagine a win for anyone else as anything less than something stolen from him.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

Mr. Schatz doesn’t quote William Goldman’s maxim about the movie industry—“nobody knows anything”—but it could stand as his book’s motto.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Billionaire Warren Buffett had a simple maxim for navigating Berkshire Hathaway through the financial crisis of 2007-09.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

During the years 1919-20 Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist, adopted as his own the maxim ‘pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The saying is one of his favorite maxims, but it hasn’t been uttered by any other world leader for centuries.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

Irony and sarcasm effortlessly poured out, along with puns, bons mots and maxims.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

“Be greedy when others are fearful” is one half of one of Warren Buffett’s most well-known investing maxims.

From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026

Journalists, so those maxims go, should never make themselves the story or get too close to those they are covering.

From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2024

My CIA training overrode my wishful thinking," Howard said, "and I also recalled one of James Bond's maxims: 'Once is coincidence.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau